Word: connoisseurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morgan & Co., Ltd. retail chain. The Bay also has a network of 16 wholesale houses, oil and gas rights on more than 15 million acres in central Canada, lucrative fur auction houses in New York, Montreal and London, and a tidy U.S.. Canadian and British business in a connoisseur's Scotch whisky modestly called "Best Procurable.'' The Bay's profits last year were an alltime high of $8,893,000 on record gross revenue of $294,406,000, and this year looks to be even better...
...associated with African adventure: senile rented lions, brffsking British bwanas, bulbous Viennese sheiks, disdressed American beauties, big dumb tribesmen who look suspiciously like studio Indians retouched for the occasion. Most of all he relishes the silly things people say so earnestly in this sort of movie, and assembles a connoisseur's catalogue of clinkers...
...tourist. He had to wait six weeks for a visa, at last entered Albania on a once-a-week Hungarian flight from Budapest to have a look at the country whose regime was described as "more bloodthirsty and retrograde than that of the czars" by no less a connoisseur than Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...
Equally interesting to the connoisseur and to the serious student of art history may be the numerous works by painters not completely drawn up in the sweep of stylistic progression but unmistakably and sometimes unwillingly influenced by it. The coloring of lean Leon Gerome's "Diana, chasseresse" demonstrates the power of a limited palette, Gerome, the master of Eakins constructs a mystic vision in unusual tones of blue and silver, evoking a half-horrible world be remembrance that anticipate surrealism...
...Eton and Oxford. "He knows every picture in every manor in England," says one London dealer. One of his first jobs after leaving Oxford-"A terribly humble job," he says, "a hopeless kind of job"-was as a general rewrite man and assistant circulation manager for the art magazine Connoisseur. But after a year of drudgery, Wilson felt he had learned enough about antiques to brazen it out at Sotheby's. For his first auction in 1938, he practiced all weekend by "auctioning" off every stick of their furniture to his young wife and their baby's nurse...